I’ve been obsessed with small mechanical tricks for as long as I can remember — the kind of thing that fits in your hand and transforms a simple sketch into a tiny world. This pocket-sized parallax viewer is one of my favourite make-at-home projects: compact, cheap, and surprisingly magical. It...
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I love giving small, ordinary objects a second life, and matchboxes are one of...
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I love tiny things that feel like they hold secrets — miniature books are one...
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I love teaching short hands-on sessions that leave people with something...
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I love small mechanical surprises — the ones that make you tilt your head and...
I love teaching short hands-on sessions that leave people with something enchanting to take home, and a 45‑minute solderless LED halo for tiny theatrical props is one of my favourites. It’s quick, tactile, and full of small surprises—perfect...
I love small mechanical surprises — the ones that make you tilt your head and grin. This coin‑hidden pop‑up is one of my favourite tiny tricks: a simple paper mechanism that hides a coin (or small token) and, when you spin it, reveals a tiny...
I’ve always loved tiny moments of surprise: a pattern that shifts when you tilt it, a little mechanism that hides a trick in plain sight. Recently I wanted a pocket-sized kaleidoscope that felt handmade, playful and a little rough around the edges...
I love simple tools that reveal surprising motion, and a three-card flipbook is one of my favourite pocket-sized experiments. It’s small, fast to make, and brilliantly instructive for beginners learning about timing, keyframes and how slight...
I’m obsessed with tiny, believable worlds — and one small trick I return to again and again is photographing miniature water. When you get the light and reflections right, a scrap of resin or a puddle of gloss medium can read as a pond, a...
Running a quick, joyful paper automaton workshop for kids aged 8–12 is one of my favourite ways to introduce mechanical thinking, storytelling and a bit of theatre to a classroom or birthday party. I designed this session to fit into a 30-minute...
I love a small, secret moment in the mail — something that looks ordinary from the outside but opens to reveal a little bit of mischief. In this piece I’ll walk you through how I design an instant pop-up postcard that conceals a surprise...
I love adding little moments of surprise to my tabletop scenes, and one of my favourite tricks is a convincing miniature fog that hugs buildings, creeps through alleyways or pools in low spots. After a lot of tinkering I've settled on a simple,...
I love the little surprises that happen when a flat surface suddenly looks like liquid—when paint, paper or a tiny vignette becomes a glossy pool of reflected light. Lately I’ve been photographing small “resin water” scenes for...
I love the quiet little shock of a tiny figure suddenly flipping through the air as if pushed by some secret breeze. Getting that flip to read as a single clean loop — with the thread invisible, the movement smooth and the mechanics entirely...